Big Organic and Enron

After reading Big Organic and thinking the relationship between Enron and the reading, I found that it is interesting to think from Enron's Rise to the fall. This can related to many things from what we learned in Ishmael.
First connection is in Ishmael, we know about the mother culture, mother nature, takers, and leavers. I think Enron is like the takers. Enron started pretty normal. However, the leader of the company become more and more greedier, at the end Enron is billions in dept. At last it collapse. Looking from this big picture, Enron is takers. Takers have their own mother culture. the mother culture we have was to gain money so we can have great life and that is what our dream is. That become a motive for Enron to try to gain more money. At last Enron collapsed because it is like leaver fighting back.
From my perspective this is how quotes "everything eventually morphs into the way the world is." and ".....conform the irregularity of nature to the precision and control of a machine." fit in and connect with Enron.

Another point is about how organic foods became a business now. I think this relate this to Enron is that many things started with a normal, naive, good view but at the end it become blurred. Organic food was good but at last Organic food is more of business in it. This is same as Enron. Enron started normally, however at the end it collapse because of their greediness.

In conclusion, what I have pointed out the problem is not only pointing Enron. This is pointing how our mother culture is and how similar we are to Enron.

SHOCK! New look of Organic

I was shocked these recent days in global ethics class. This shock started from the sustainable/environment friendly businesses presentation. The shock was not from how much sustainable and environment friendly businesses in the world; it is from how indefinite our society is.
Theoretically, organic is a good product and that is what I believe at beginning. However, as I knew more and learned more in Global Ethic class, I found out that this can be a method of selling product because organic can be slogan. This sounds like lie but truthfully, it's not a lie because there are many varied definitions that define "organic". After watch the film- The end of Suburbia, I have a similar feeling of these "Organic" slogans. the relation between the film and the reading is that I feel sad about our human always being captivated by a trend. However, the trend that I mean is not really a trend; it is like fashion. According to Ishmael," we always do what we have being told from mother culture.." and according to The end of Suburbia, "we live in dream...American dream.". This trend/ fashion is like a little culture that we followed. In Taiwan, same things but with different background happened again. I feel that most of Taiwanese have these kind culture that captivated us and it is in many different categories such as politics, showbiz, and clothing...etc.
For example, recent news and from what I experienced-people were afraid and do not buy milk because of the China's contaminated-milk incident.One day, Amy and I was chatting with a middle aged housewife at community service. The housewife said that she does not want to buy milk because of the poisoned-milk incident.
The wife is one of the people that is captivated by the trend. How? Why? If the milk is contaminated then many things should already be contaminated too because there is a lot of interconnection between foods. If milk is harmful then butter is harmful and we should be aware of what food we are buying if milk is harmful. For example, maybe those milk company sell their contaminated milk powder to pig meat company then those pig will be bad too.
In conclusion, I want to say is that organic can be another culture that keep us captivated. What I feel is that in a perspective organic food is good but the good is questionable in other perspective because thing tend to emphasize their good and left out the bad things.

Enron the source company

After I watched the documentary film of Enron corporation. The first reaction I have is laugh in an ironic way because is not they are bad ; is their way of doing things and selling product make me felt ludicrous. According to Wikipedia CEO of Enron corporation Kenneth Lay (Lee) is dead now. He was indicated by Aspen Valley hospital in Colorado that he died of a heart attack. Another important person of the Enron corporation case, Jeffery Skilling, he is serving 25 year and 4 month in prison now.

From my impression of the film there is a quote saying that people in Enron are "nerds". I totally agree what this quote said. It is not because their visual is nerd but their mind is foolish. From the analysis of the documentary film, they are so foolish that they become more and more greedy and fearless of many financial problems. At the point of climax, they came out a strategy called market to market strategy. Market to market strategy's curtail explanation is a strategy that make up false statement of their financial condition and attract stock buyer to buy their stock so they have more fund for company. When they nearly cannot cover the secret of the dept, they started giving electric to California state. However, they did not become more ethical instead they do unnecessary maintenance and delcared blackouts. This was called the California electricity crisis. After one year, they got caught making false information and the causation of California eletricity crisis. On May 25 2006, Kenneth Lay and Jeffery Skilling was found guilty and on October 23, Jeffery Skilling was given 24 years and 4 month prison sentence.

In conclusion, relate this to Ishmael, In book of Ishmael Ishmael said that the world is equilibrium. The rule of equailibirum in Ishmael is saying when ever you do something there will be consequence after it. I think this is the the situation that consequence come back and harm you. After watching this film, I think that we should do things with ethic. In the world around us, we might not see the unethical side of many things. However, at least we know whether we are doing good thing or bad thing. From what I have learned in Global ethic class, I think this story is similar to what I have been investigating in GE class. It is not only the bad business I see in GE, it's the rule of equilibrium in our world.

Emociones reflexion

Yo pienso una Emocion estas complicado
Yo pienso una cancion estas sobre Emocion esta una expreso mi uno mismo.
Emocion puede creer emociones.
una la cancion estas interesante
El razon esta una liricas expliquas personalidad de emotion.
Sobre una la cancion y contente -Jarabe de Palo
yo pienso Jarabe de Palo esta similar una la cancion - emociones
la cancion estilo esta similar significa de Jara de Palo
la cancion tienes significa
La cancion esta la medicina y similar significa de jara de palo.

Reflexion de Español Conción

Yo es content de hago Español conción
Me gusta hago la musica
Yo repaso vocabulario de nivel uno de untímo año
Yo resumen verbo y gramatica
Yo aprendido la cultura de Aliment de Mexico, dinero, y paises

Our Design = Our Intention

When I watch the Ted talk by William Mcdonough, the quote "the fundamental issue is that for me design is the first signal of human intention" strongly grabbed my attention.
I sturdily believe this quote is a fact. No one will design and create anything that does not have any meaning to it.

In William Mcdonough's Ted talk , he said that the design of the toy duck has some problems. Usually, people do not see anything wrong with the duck; however, you will notice the problem when you look more carefully.

This duck is suppose to be safe because it is a toy for children, but on the back of the duck, it said " the product contain chemicals known by the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproduction harm". After seeing this, a question popped up in my mind: What is the intention of this design? Was the toy duck made for gaining profit or for the good of children?

Now, tie "Design's intention" to "Ecology of commerce" we read. In the reading, it talks about how business affect the world from many things. When I read the reading, the first thing that popped out from my mind was credit card. The invention of credit card seem harmless but it is actually harmful. Credit cards can cause financial crises.

Relate to what we've learned in English class "Things that make us feel safe is the thing that give us control". I think that the true intention of credit card is to take money away from people. Credit cards make people buy things without considering the price, which is a bad buying habit. People receive bills later, but a lot of people could not afford the bills, therefore the bills becomes huge debts. From the example, I think our intention for designing things is getting worse and worse and I believe the consequences will affect everyone, including the people who design the product.

The impact corporations can bring is huge. I think that organization, group, and corporation should design things with good intention and be ethically responsible for the design they make. Only good intention can make our society and environment better.

Waste not and Senior project

In waste not, the author discuss about issue of US being wasteful. United State is a developed country and is a model that many developing countries look up to. However, US did not do a good job of being a good model because life style in US makes a bad model for developing countries. There is one section in Waste not that I have the most impression is the “How much waste is there”. This section talk about statistic of how much US waste is and show how bad the pollution in US is. Although, the statistic did not tell any moral, it makes me feel we are living in a trashcan and with a lot of illness caused by us.

For four weeks, I have interned at Agnitio as a quality tester. My responsibility is to keep the quality of product stay in a certain level and make sure the product work. What I can learn from working as a quality tester, I can learn how the detecting process work and different ways of detecting things.

From motivation of the waste not, Senior project, and Angus’ presentation. I realized that my internship is connected with the reading in the sense that it is about protecting the Environment around us. From Angus’ presentation I feel that we still have a chance to rescue the world and we can do it. For me my method of rescue the world is by investigate what cause our body sick in this polluted environment.

Thoughts and Inquiry question

How does air pollution affect our body

How does air pollution affect our body? This can answer from the reason I chose biochemistry for internship. I choose science because I want to save this environment and help this community become a better place.
I want to investigate how does air pollution affect our body because in this industrialized environment we often forget the negative side of chemical exhaustion but only know the convenience of it. Recent years, we can hear many news about having bizarre sickness and found out that it is cause by pollutions. From the Cadmium polluted rice to green oyster, Every case is another step toward hell.
I want to find out how does air pollution affect our body and educate the community the right knowledge so we can all b aware of our environment.

"Science" Park ? Taiwan?

"Science" park? it's really "science" or it's industrialization park？

From the reading, I can see the disastrous humanity of most Taiwanese people. I believe the case in reading is just a small edge of a big problem.

Often, I have the same thought as the reading (The Silence of Silicon Lambs). However, I do not want to focus on only science park but the whole Taiwan. Since US and Europe countries were industrialized, Taiwanese trying hard to push Taiwan's economy and wanting Taiwan become a developed country. Oppositely, we pushed and saved the wrong way. Media, government, and governors try to cover the negative fact. Therefore, it caused many corporation doing underground illegal activities. In recent years' news I found out that these cases are NOT just happening in Science park but also polices and education.

In Taiwanese education, many things in textbooks are not really doing the duty of education. Taiwanese education are focus more on test, job, future. Often, they ask to memorize the isolated information in textbook and not think about the saving environment or helping the community. The only people who were concern about our environment were only researchers or scholars. Economy of the Taiwan may seem important but avoiding the truth cannot make this country's education improve because it loses the point of education.

In Taiwanese politics, It is wrong that politician use "helping economy" this excuse to mess Taiwanese's mind. Media are like amplifier, it makes the things become more crucial and more well known. However, most of politician in Taiwan knew the affect of media. Therefore, they started underground activity and started to pointing finger to other politicians. Nevertheless, most of them were actually taking the advantage of making money and getting more support but not improving the environment.

In conclusion, this modern and convenient world, things looks harmless but in fact they are hiding the inconveniences in the future.

the end of the Cat's cradle

I personally think the end was pretty straight forward. At the end everyone died and the world sounds like it ended. Kurt Vonnegut wait till this moment showing the whole idea. At last he describe the book name cat's cradle. He satire the humanity of this society. I think he just criticized the region and the humanity. From my perspective of what he trying to do was to tell that cat's cradle is similar to life. From previous pages He is trying to tell the reader that Cat's cradle is a fun looking string game that means nothing and telling that the religion today is phony.

8th grade exhibition presentation

Today is a important day because I am going to present in front of whole school. I am a person who is excited to present but I felt really stressed and nervous that I am going to face all those people.The reason of that is When ever I get nervous my brain will get froze up. The consequence of that are I cannot talk properly, I will lose my point easily.

After I went to school I felt so nervous and so excited that I can heard my heart beating, pumping and hand trembling with sweat. Feel the heat from my body. The all school gathering is in the morning at eight and it is 10 minute from now. When I settle my things down and put my stuff in locker, I immediately run up to fifth floor and set my mac and be ready.

When people are coming up I was reviewing my material for the presentation and see if I lose something. Until everyone come up and sit in the circle, my heart beat pump faster than before now and I start shaking my foot. I see my self shrinking and the face of the people become more devious. Whenever people look at me and ask if I am nervous I will reply I was excited. I believe I was excited although people say I look calm.

After Mr.Loken announce, It is the time to show. First person going on was Daniel Wu. I want to thank him a lot because he make me be the second one to go on. When Daniel comes off, I went up. I feel like to pass out so I was holding the table all the time. Suddenly, when I was going to speak, I forgot everything. I do not know what to say so I squeeze my brain and trying to have a description that could tell the audience and get rit of it fast. Eventually, I read the whole presentation and add what I thought. finally I finish the presentation

It is a stressful process to got through. After school gather Everyone said that my presentation was funny, great, and alive. Those words had made my day.

Teach with cell phone?

I believe that theoretically it will work but in the actual case it cannot. I think that education can be creative and "alive" but many times it will not work. Provide cell phone to teach student may cause chaos. Technology is not design for education because they are not a good and safe tool for student to use to learn.

(The picture above was from CNN)
Often technology got recreated and hacked by people.According to the article we can make rules but in many case punishment cannot solve the problem because it is similar to diseases the disgusting technic will get better. For a good example, From my observation and what I found, in our school technology is a problem. I personally believe that it is over use of technology. People in our school people use PC and Mac. For the minor reason computer game are similar disease because it will spread out and everyone will have one in their computer. When is the time for break everyone just siting on the chair and playing game not getting sun light under the sun. That is a unhealthy habit for student to learn. Well, the major reason is during class. People is not paying attention in class because of the computer. The user's agreement seems not work. there are a hole from that because it is computer. It could hide almost everything in it. Computer operate system is only a script of computer language that organize the other computer script so you can use it conveniently but you still could make a computer script that hide from the operate system. From this example therefore I think that technology should not be used in education.

8th grade perspective essay

I were told to write a short essay in class. It is an essay written from when 8th grade present their expedition. I was having fun writing that short essay. I was writing from Kevin Chi's perspective but instead of writing him I create another person. In the short story I imagine what is Kevin Chi thinking in front of the whole school. The reason that I choose Kevin Chi is because I think he is interesting and I think is a stereotype to write a person go on stage and act like they are nervous.

If I got more time. I want to revise the essay because the essay written in a short time so I believe that there will have many mistakes in the essay.

Writing and reading fictions

I read many stories on Fiction on web and I found out amazing that It actually follow the rule from The Owl At Purdue site. On the site It tell the problems that happened often on beginning fiction writer. The problems are Summary and Scenes, telling and showing, control of scope of the story, stereotype character, overly dramatic plot.
After reading stories, I see the most often and the most important problem was the controlling the scope of the story. From what I read they all show good at controlling the scope. I do not know if that is somebody's problem but I think one of my big problem was controlling the scope of the story.
In the first story I read, Adenburrow, I found that the story is well organized in both it's ideas and paragraphs. In the story I found really good scene and really good dramatic plot. It really describe a man who is having day dream about sex and interrupt by a unrelated stranger.
Another story I read was Granny. It was about a family's granny have a weird habit of prepare give. In the story I found the story have a well fixing stereotype character because it give many information about the character.
After reading many I found interesting that many of story in the fiction on web are pretty straight forward. I do not know if I am really lucky that in five story that I read I did not found any symbolism or satire or.....etc. However, I think this shows how important that having good organized story is better than the bad organized but got many literary term.

Exciting the Inspiration in mind

I read this blog entry from student 2.0. This is about inspiration. From deep in my mind I thought about this before and I found two sides. One is saying follow your inspiration and another one is saying look at the reality. Ｉstruggled making this kind of decisions. Should I keep on doing it or not? For example, In textbook or literature book many books tell you to follow your dreams but in reality many things are different. My father always tell me to wake up but in many time I cannot tell the difference of "wake up". At last I think I have to define "wake up" by my self. I think there is no "wake up". It is only about you know what you are doing. If you know what you are doing then you are "awaken" I felt same way as Kaelie Giffel does but the important thing is that I am "a-waked"and I have the inspiration of what I want to do and want to be in my mind.

Should an 18 Year Old Really Know What They’re Going to Do For the Rest of Their Life?

Well, I personally think you do not need to know. I believe that you do not need to know what you going to be in the future but if you know it then that is better. I think for some people it is hard to find what things they are interested doing it. From the Stacy wrote, I think adults have bad stereotype idea that you have to know what to do or you else will not success. Sometimes things are not fast and sometimes your interest will be irrelevant to what adults thought you want to do. I knew a guy he is from Harvard and he study bio- tech but he end up being music DJ. At last I want to emphasize that you still got many year to decide what you want to do. The important thing is to choose the future you like the best.

Cat's cradle and Beach

This is the letter Newton didnt sent out.

To Jonah:
I have something to share with you. Although I was small and I do not know if that could help you, I will just say it.

I remember this is four month before he died, our family went to beach to get some sunlight and feel the summer. My family was still the same as the old days. On that day my father still wear a suit and smoking cigar. As you know my father is those kind of person that except his work, he spent least amount of time to dress him self. My sister was still the same, when we get to the beach she start to putting sun screen and telling me and my brother that we have be careful when we are playing. When I was building sand castle and I saw him talking to him self the whole the time. I remember he said, ” Turtle is swimming in the ocean.” I still do not get why he says that. Maybe he is saying for nothing.
However, I think that is what I remembered. I was just surprised he said something.

Cats Cradle

hmm...
Cats cradle ...it is about cat and it's and cradle ......haha joking
No. from what I have read I think Cat's cradle is a simple book with complex idea. It is a satire book that contain black humors. The book started with a person and he is describing what happened to him self.
I personally think that Kurt Vonnegut is using Jonah to laugh at every religion. In the beginning of the book he write a Christian book but him self is not a Christian. After that he started to tell his religion, the Bokononism. From that I think the religion started to telling a little about the Dr. Hoenikker. Dr. Hoenikker got a weird family. From my perspective the reason he got a weird family is because his personality is weird. Although he isolated and looked cold blood-ed, I think he is just a person that do not follow the society. In his Hoenikkers family newton's mom died and left 3 children. The result of that is his sister is being like mom and his brother got mess up mind. the only normal one is Newton.

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Change the world

<<- a Taiwanese doctor 連加恩 Chan - un Lian




Usually, people thought to change the world is hard because you need a tremendous power to do it but I think the idea is preventing people from changing the world. From my perspective, I think to change world is not hard, it just about you want to do it or not. Sometimes, people do not know how should they do it because they do not have a group of people or program that support him/her but I think that is not the problem because I believe that you can change the world by your self. From the animal testing film found by Jack and Amy, the 16 year old guy started a website and gather people to against the people that do not want the animal testing lab. I think that is the thing we should do. It does not have to have a huge power. It should be a little project that similar as a school project.
After the basic idea from my mind about changing world, I want to do something. If I have chance want to go to hospital in Africa to help the people there. For now, I would want to go to hospital and help people there.

New blog "alternative medicine"

I subscribe a blog is about medicine/ health discovery. The blog is about "Sexually Transmitted Diseases."
Maybe, my thought is not related to the blog entry but I think that there are many many ways to decrease the amount of sex. I think the best way to do it is to let people know about "sex".

Accent, voice

Hi this mun (man) what-a do you want? Ohh yesss the Apple mac probrem ( problem). Ya (you) know you only open mac with one press, the power and then go application open safari.

guess.......is japanese

Grizzly man

This is a documentary film by Werner Herzog and it is about a bear fan Timothy Treadwell.
In the film, you could see many clips starred by Timothy. From Timothy's analysis in this movie, I see the many aspect of Timothy Treadwell.
I personally think this film have two side of argument. One side is saying that he is innocent because he try to protect grizzly bear and try to contact with them. Another side is saying that he is interrupt grizzly bears' habitat. In my mind, I do not want to set which side am I on because I think he is both good and bad. Another reason that I do not want to criticize or go for him is because I could not tell Timothy is good or bad by just watching a film about him. In the film there was only people's bias about him. Connect this to current world, this is similar to news. Many thing on news is prepared by the news reporter and the people in company and it usually bias . Sometimes by just watching a small amount of news. You could not tell the truth.
I found something interesting and it was related to the film. In Tyler and Roanne's discussion, we have discussed through an idea. People who stress by the life usually wanted to interact with animals. I found Timothy Treadwell could be an good example of the idea. In the film, it showed Timothy had a rough life after he got out from high school and he been through drugs and alcoholism. However, his mind is not dead, so he decide to quite his life and start contact with wild nature.

The Voice

I think if to summarize and to question is first and second important thing when you read. The voice is the third. The reason is if you do not know the voice you cannot understand what the is the moral behind the story. Language are free and could be many forms. Irony, sarcastic, comedy.
I read the gift and tough teacher
for myself look for the voice, I look for the opinion the author have .

Arctic tale- my thoght

I first thought that this film was professional and safely done but after I saw the little film was showing when the movie end. I felt really impressed by those people.
In the film you could see the global warming effect. It is interesting that I thought something after a discussion from SRC about speaking English.
I think protecting this world is similar to the problem of speaking English. From my perspective what happen now, is
everyone do not know how serious the problem is and what is the problem. I think every modern industrialized country people know global warming and this is relate to the speaking English problem, everyone know we should not speak the language that is not in English but we still do. Same as global warming educations and laws is not enough. I think we should take it more serious. In order to change this world is to make everyone on earth think this is an urgent. To those who do know what is the problem, I think we should seriously educate them. How should we educate them ? I think to make it serious , clear and forceful. Every country's government and environmental organization should work together and make some policy or rule that could change every person's life.

Jane Goodall

I really agree with what Jane Goodall said in the TED talk speech. We are actually the same as those animals we saw. It is related to an idea from Ishmael: “This world is not our world.”The phrase “our world ” is not true or false; it is only an idea that humans believe without proof. This world does not belong to any specific creature; the world cannot lose any kind of creature. Those poor and native people used natural tools to get food. They are similar to chimpanzees; chimpanzees have nine different tools to get food. From what Jane Goodall said, the difference between humans and chimpanzees is humans have language and culture, but this will not separate the “class level” of humans and chimpanzees. Goodall argued that native and poor people have no idea what happens in the world because all they do is try to survive.


An example from speech, those people in the forest cut down the trees in forest though that many pressure from foreign country, all they want is to get money and try live a day. From Phil Borges these are endangered culture. Us, who had modern education and lived in modern world, we have responsibility to tell them and help them because we made the mess. This world is all interconnections, If only the modernized people do it. The mess will still going on continuously. This is the area that we need to work on. Today, is not only how convenience is the technologies, is how “good” the technologies are. From the film Wal-Mart, what we do is not just try to get the lowest price product. We should get a good product, which means the product of the company will protect the workers. Things we do will have the consequences. For example Wal-mart gets the consequences of doing those un-man kind things. The consequences of doing these factory and company is Mother Nature will fight back. Global warming, deceases…etc are the consequence. From what the blog comment I wrote in EO Wilson said, this world people are blind fold themselves. All this consequences happening in the world is not happened separately, we should have a “global mind” think broadly.

God must be crazy

I watch the movie before. I do not know why this film is funny. This time I watch the whole thing; last time was only a part. I think the film is pretty sad. The reason for that is we are attack by our captivity. The bushman represent human without bushman captivity. The man who suits the bushman is represent modern captivity man. Creature on this world is captive. I think that the point now is being biggest taker in this world. How? Will I think is that now what we are doing is like a massive and slow suicide. We keep on have desire to get more thing to get better. There is always pursuit of happiness but we never satisfied because we only thinking in our culture and in our ways. We do not usually think what is out there and what happen in this planet. In 10th grade our school learnt what happen about global warming so I did a research on it and saw a sad comment on Internet. It said, “There is no global warming here!!” When I saw this, I was shocked. I thought the first time I saw global warming is on textbook but why some people will be so unshaped and so irrelevant to global situation. The first thing I said after the movie was “This is sad and sarcastic.” This movie is so realistic that it makes almost cried. It is describes our culture really well. War, love, argue, survive, law, culture is the most common thing in our life and is the reason we are captivity. Maybe human should change how we think the world and how we view as us. It sounds like in Ishmael. Ishmael was teaching this world is not for anyone and anything. The earth is always being there for us if we think.

summary and reading

A new way. That could improve your quality of reading stuff. Usually, when I read a Shakespeare play I well get a reading guide and my summary to summarize the play. In the play many thing are happening and it is complicated when things happen when many character appeared. If this happened, you should have this skill because this strategy have both review and analyzation. when you try to summarize you will try to think back what you have read and think what happen inside. After you summarize you will have a image in your head that tells you about the book, so that you can dig deep into the book easier.

Amateur learner and a Mature learner

After I read Arthus Erea I thought something. From what I know from his article, I think that it is important that a student is a amateur learner. Teacher in the school make you cram things into your head and try to tell you that no good grade = no good job = no $$$. Well, I believe that the world is simlar as this. Although, the world didn't tell you that no good grade =no good job =no $$$, it showed a attitude and personality of doing things. The information no good grade = no good job gave from teacher is only a edge of a big image. The picture was because of no good attitude of learning and no good grade so have no college. If you don't have a good college, why a business want you?

Reading and Prediction

I thought this interesting. From my reading habit I always predict when I reading. It was a good thing to do eventhough if no one tells me. For me and my experience of reading English and Chinese I think that is the process to get tot understand the story or the book you are reading. The reason for me to do that is when I usually reads a book sometime I will forgot what I just read. By doing that I could review what have read so that I could dig more into the book.